The Year of Less

[spacefem]

The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store

Comments

[lenine2]

You should get a commission. I, too, just ordered a used copy on Amazon. Your review made it sound worthwhile.

[chocolate_frapp]

I'm sorry her so called friends were not supportive about her not drinking, that's not cool at all.

[spacefem]

It was sad. But I can see it! It’s hard to find supportive people :(

[siglinde99]

I followed her blog years ago, when she was still freshly out of school and coming close to finishing paying off her student debt. I track my finances faithfully because of her influence. I gave up on it when she started focusing more on the decluttering as it wasn’t as interesting to me. It’s too bad she is giving up the blog altogether.

[spacefem]

I’ll have to check out her older posts then! Decluttering is somewhat interesting to me but I feel like Marie Kondo just mic drop won that game. I liked her book a lot, even if it got me to a pretty weird mental state and I didn’t exactly do her whole crazy program.

[siglinde99]

I’m kind of a Marie Kondo fan. It doesn’t all work for me, but a couple of her ideas have been really helpful. I laughed at thanking things for their service, but doing so really allowed me to let go of things I was holding onto because they were gifts or might be useful some day.